[TennesseeStar] Teens Who Drove Through Franklin, Tennessee Gun Store in Attempted Robbery Reportedly Illegal Immigrants Set for Deportation.
A source familiar with the investigation told The Tennessee Star that the five teenage suspects arrested in connection to a January 20 attempted break-in at a gun and ammunition store in Franklin, Tennessee are Honduran nationals who were in the United States illegally at the time of their arrest, and that they are scheduled to be deported by federal immigration authorities.
What odds that they belong to a narco gang?
According to WSMV 4, the suspects ranged in age from 13 to 15, and were apprehended after a pursuit that involved multiple law enforcement agencies.
What odds that they’re actually considerably older than young teens?
The teens allegedly drove a vehicle into the gun store, with the outlet publishing security camera footage from the gun store that showed multiple suspects approach the store front, only to learn they were unsuccessful at ramming the door before leaving after apparently discovering their attempt was unsuccessful.
Arms and Ammo confirmed the attempt occurred at about 4 a.m., and that the would-be thieves were unsuccessful, in a post to social media.
The Franklin Police Department (FPD) told The Star it was unable to provide identifying information about the suspects, or confirm their citizenship status, but said the teens resided in Nashville prior to their arrest.
Neither the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office nor the Williamson County District Attorney’s office replied to inquiries seeking confirmation of the teens’ citizenship, or that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested immigration detainers to transfer the arrestees to federal custody. The sheriff’s office also did not confirm whether the teens remain in the custody of law enforcement.
As FPD said that the suspects resided in Nashville, The Star additionally contacted the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office (DSCO) to determine whether it held citizenship information about the teens. It also told The Star booking photos could not be shared because the suspects are minor.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to a request seeking confirmation they requested immigration detainers on the teens, nor that they are Honduran nationals who were in the country illegally.
According to a report recently published by the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TDAGC), a total of 92 illegal immigrants were arrested or convicted in Williamson County during the last three months of 2024, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the arrests in the county.
More than 2,700 illegal immigrants were convicted or arrested throughout Tennessee over the same period of time.
The break-in attempt shared similarities with a series of California burglaries where the thieves used stolen vehicles to ram the storefronts. Six men were charged with federal crimes for the smash and grabs last year.
Not a narco gang but an international gang of thieves? Got it.
[BBC] Thieves in the US state of Pennsylvania have stolen more than 100,000 eggs - worth $40,000 (£32,000) - from a single grocer.
That’s an awful lot of eggs for a single grocery store. But they’re actually a commercial egg producer with pretensions — see link below — suggesting they’re still acting on the funding from USAID to provide anti-America reportage. It is still a lot of eggs stolen, though one wonders if even most of them survived the experience, but the elided information moves the report toward propaganda, given that the bird flu epidemic occurred during the past two years of Joe Biden’s term.
The heist targeted the back of a lorry at Pete & Gerry's Organics in Greencastle on 1 February, police say.
It comes as the price of eggs has risen amid a bird flu epidemic, making them an unexpectedly costly menu option. The national chain Waffle House has just hiked their egg charge.
Prices for eggs have surged more than 65% in the last year, US government data shows. The agriculture department predicted the cost will increase by about 20% in 2025.
From Pete & Gerry’s career page on the company website: Pete & Gerry’s (parent company to Nellie’s Free Range) was the first B Corp Certified egg producer in the country.
[IsraelTimes] A neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... leader accused of plotting to attack Baltimore’s power grid has been found guilty of conspiring to damage an energy facility, the US Justice Department says.
Brandon Russell, 29, of Orlando, Florida, and an associate were arrested in February 2023 after the FBI thwarted their plan with the help of a confidential informant.
Evidence presented at trial showed that between November 2022 and that month, Russell conspired to attack transformers within electrical substations "in furtherance of his racially or ethnically motivated violent mostly peaceful krazed killer beliefs," the Justice Department says in a statement.
Russell posted links to open-source infrastructure maps and described how a small number of attacks on substations could cause a "cascading failure," the department says.
He recruited a Maryland-based woman, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, to carry out the attacks in order to interrupt and impair the power grid in Baltimore, Maryland’s largest city, the department says.
Clendaniel identified five substations to target and Russell attempted to secure a weapon for her. The planned attacks would have caused damage of more than $75 million, the department says.
Russell is a convicted felon and founder of a neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division that works toward "ushering in the collapse of civilization," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks US hate groups.
Atomwaffen Division was a small, mostly online group that collapsed in 2020, the remnant renaming itself the National Socialist Order while keeping to their self-imposed mission. From prison Mr. Russell got himself and his girlfriend sent up for even longer after including their BFF FBI informant in their inter-prison online discussion of their next fiendish plot — not the sharpest knife in the block, that one...
He was previously sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of an unregistered destruction device and the improper storage of kabooms.
Russell is scheduled to be sentenced on June 17. He could face up to 20 years in prison.
Clendaniel was sentenced to 18 years in prison in September 2024.
Russell’s lawyers declined to comment on the verdict.
Neo-Nazi
Given, Neo-Nazi literally means “new-Nazi” and is used to refer to people who have adopted Nazi ideologies and an agenda similar to those of the Nazi party... aka “National Socialism”
Question of the day:
Which American Political Party has recently warmed up to National Socialism, used it power in a dictatorial fashion, and has supported and funded anti-Semitic views?
YEP!!!! None other than the New US Democrat Party.
[FoxNews] Man escaped after being shot with a stun gun twice, authorities say.
A Florida man was recently arrested after leading authorities on a wild chase on Jan. 27 while wearing a Dalmatian onesie, according to police.
Dylan Keith Devereaux, 36, is charged with fleeing to elude, escaping, reckless driving, leaving the scene involving property damage, battery on a law enforcement officer, assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence, depriving a law enforcement officer of equipment, drug equipment possession, possession of a new legend drug, possession of methamphetamine, and petit larceny, according to court records.
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The suspect's girlfriend told troopers she did not want them near her home since she had drugs inside and did not want to go to jail, according to the report.
[NY Post] So much winning Andrea Mitchell will step down as full-time anchor on MSNBC on Friday — ending a 17-year stint as host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on the Comcast-owned cable news outfit.
Mitchell announced last fall that she would step down from her daily MSNBC show after the presidential inauguration but will continue her work as a correspondent for NBC News.
The veteran journalist will remain NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
“After 16 years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: connecting, listening, and reporting in the field,” Mitchell, 78, told viewers on Oct. 29.
“Whoever is elected next week will face the monumental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home.”
Mitchell’s departure is the end of an era at MSNBC, which launched “Andrea Mitchell Reports” in 2008 — making it the longest-running show in MSNBC’s daytime lineup.
[ABC4] A man was arrested for manslaughter after allegedly smoking marijuana with a friend and shooting him after the friend said he could "dodge a bullet," according to arrest documents.
Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, was arrested just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 2, on one count of second-degree felony manslaughter and one third-degree felony charge related to firearms.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Salt Lake County, officials with Unified Police responded to a home in Kearns, Utah, after receiving reports that a man was shot in the chest. Officials found the victim unresponsive on the floor and took him to a local hospital, where he later died.
[FoxWeather] The origin of a mysterious throbbing light racing behind clouds across parts of the northeastern U.S. and Canada over the weekend has been identified as a meteor, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS).
As many as nine reports were filed with the agency after the fireball was sighted burning up as it entered Earth's atmosphere about 3:45 a.m. ET Saturday. Witnesses reported seeing it from as far south as Maryland and as far north as Ontario, Canada, with sightings also logged in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
"Caught a magnificent green bolide meteor … SO BRIGHT," exclaimed Mid-Atlantic Severe Weather Alert on social media, sharing a video captured by their north-facing storm and aurora camera in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
A fireball, astronomers explain, is simply a very bright meteor – brighter than magnitude -4, roughly equivalent to the brilliance of Venus in the morning or evening sky. A bolide is a specific type of fireball that culminates in a spectacular explosion of light, often accompanied by visible fragments.
The AMS said the vibrant colors often reported by those who witness fireballs are likely due to their extreme brightness, making them easily visible within the range of human color perception.
Although thousands of fireballs blaze through Earth's atmosphere daily, the AMS reports that most go unseen. They frequently occur over oceans or uninhabited areas, are obscured by daylight, or simply aren't noticed by the few people out at night.
The meteor witnessed on Saturday likely disintegrated upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. According to the AMS, a fireball must be brighter than magnitude -8 to -10 to have a chance of surviving atmospheric entry and reaching the ground as a meteorite.
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The AMS said the vibrant colors often reported by those who witness fireballs are likely due to their extreme brightness, making them easily visible within the range of human color perception.
That sounds like AI-generated bullshit. The colors are due to the chemical composition of the meteor.
…two employees of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) have been arrested for actions connected to the crash.
Mohamed Lamine Mbengue, 21, of Rockville, Maryland, was arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with computer trespass under Virginia law. He was booked into the Arlington County Adult Detention Center and later released, according to an MWAA spokesperson.
Following further investigation, authorities also charged Jonathan Savoy, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, with computer trespass on Feb. 2. Savoy was released on a summons by a magistrate.
Both men are accused of making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records, though officials did not specify how the footage was obtained or distributed.
The footage of this horrific accident was leaked to CNN. The network proudly declared that they had obtained the footage, which shows the plane and helicopter on a collision course from a perspective not visible in other webcam videos of the incident. The brief clip captures the collision, the resulting explosion, and its aftermath.
[REUTERS] Taiwan will support companies that plan to relocate to the United States, including helping them find partners, the economy ministry said on Monday, outlining assistance it will offer after U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's new tariffs.
Making Taiwan a less attractive and lucrative prospective conquest for China? And ensuring that the Taiwanese citizenry have an income stream far from China’s reach no matter what happens? Clever.
Trump's orders for additional levies of 25% on imports from Mexico and most goods from Canada, as well as 10% on goods from China, were light on detail. But they kick in on Tuesday and have jolted markets as investors feared a broader trade war could severely hurt global growth.
Taiwan, whose companies are key producers of tech products such as semiconductors and electronics parts, is vulnerable given that many have factories in both Mexico and China and because Trump has also threatened tariffs on imported chips.
Taiwan's economy ministry, in a statement detailing measures to help companies affected by the new U.S. tariffs, said it will provide information for firms that want to relocate, such as possible U.S. states to invest in, local laws and assistance in finding partners.
The government's Industrial Technology Research Institute branches in North America will also actively promote research and development and manufacturing cooperation between Taiwanese and U.S. companies, it added.
The ministry said it will continue to pay close attention to changes in international trade and maintain communication with companies to provide them with "the most timely support and assistance to ensure that they find the best strategies to cope with the changes".
Taiwan's marquee investment in the United States is $65 billion from chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), opens new tab to build factories in Arizona, a plan begun in 2020 under Trump's first administration.
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[Regnum] Five people were injured in a shooting near a school in the Swedish city of Örebro. This was reported on February 4 by the publication Aftonbladet, citing the Swedish police.
"The police are on site and the operation is in full swing. The government is in close contact with law enforcement and is closely monitoring developments," said Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer.
According to police spokesman Lars Hedelin, the incident is currently being treated as attempted murder, arson and a serious crime involving the use of a weapon.
Eyewitnesses claim that shots were heard from outside the building. Teachers and students locked themselves in their classrooms. Police advised city residents to temporarily avoid the area.
According to the publication, ambulances have also arrived at the scene. The city hospital is vacating its emergency and intensive care unit to prepare to receive the victims.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 22, one student died and one was injured as a result of a shooting by a teenager at a high school in Nashville, USA. The 17-year-old attacker studied at the same school. He died. Police officers are investigating the incident and establishing the circumstances of the incident and the motives of the attacker.
What has Nashville to do with Sweden?
Breitbart has updates:
At least five people have been shot and hospitalised in a school shooting incident in the Swedish city of Örebro on Tuesday.
UPDATE 1730: In a press conference, police said that about 10 people have died, including the suspect, as a result of the school shooting in Örebro, Expressen reports. Several people were also hospitalised, including five for gunshot wounds. The police said that the suspect, a 35-year-old male, was not known to them before the attack, and there are currently no links to terrorism or gang activity.
UPDATE 1450: The Aftonbladet newspaper reports that the suspected shooter has died after shooting himself and was, therefore, included among the gunshot victims. The paper said that five people were brought to hospital, four of whom had surgery. Two are reported to be stable, one was only slightly injured, while another is seriously injured. Police have so far not commented on whether any teachers or students were injured during the attack. The paper went on to claim that “several” people have died in the shooting, however, this has yet to be confirmed by officials.
UPDATE 1350: According to the Expressen newspaper, the suspected shooter has shot himself. Yet, police say that it is too early to know if there were more than one perpetrator. Despite initial reports, police say that no officers were shot during the incident, but they did exchange fire with the suspect. Police spokesman Gabriel Henning confirmed that five people were shot, but their conditions are not known.
The original story continues as follows…
A major police operation is underway in Örebro given a continued threat to life following an attack on the Risbergska school, which was reportedly carried out with an automatic weapon, Expressen reports.
At least five people have been shot. At least four people have been hospitalised. However, their conditions are currently unclear.
The school’s principal, Mattias Molin, said: “We’ve vacated the school, I don’t know much more than that. We don’t know anything yet.”
According to Aftonbladet, police have ordered several other schools in the area to keep pupils indoors.
The paper also reported that the local hospital had emptied its emergency room and intensive care unit to receive the injured from the attack on Tuesday.
Speaking to Aftonbladet, a person who knew a teacher who works at the school said that he received a text message during the shooting.
“He wrote that automatic weapons are shot at school and that they have taken shelter in a room. Then he wrote that he loves me.”
Around 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting at an adult education center, Swedish police said, the deadliest attack to take place in Sweden on what the prime minister said was a “painful day” for the country.
The gunman is believed to be among those killed, and a search is continuing at the school for other possible victims, the local police chief told a press conference. The perpetrator’s motive was not immediately known.
“We know that 10 or so people have been killed here today. The reason that we can’t be more exact currently is that the extent of the incident is so large,” local police chief Roberto Eid Forest told reporters.
Forest said police believed the gunman had acted alone and that they did not currently suspect terrorism as a motive, though he cautioned that much remained unknown. He said the suspected gunman had not previously been known to police.
The shooting took place in Orebro, some 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, at the Risbergska school for adults who did not complete their formal education or failed to get the grades to continue to higher education. It is located on a campus that also houses schools for children.
Risbergska School has about 2,000 students and "was previously a high school, but is now also used for adult education and for teaching Swedish to immigrants through a government program known as SFI," according to The Telegraph.
A previously missing key bit of information.
Sweden has been plagued by gang violence in recent years, an outgrowth of their catastrophic immigration policies. Three days ago, Salwan Momika, a former Iraqi militia leader on trial in Sweden for burning a Koran, was shot dead in Stockholm.
First reports say the school attacker was of Syrian origin.
Another key datum.
Authorities claim the assailant was unknown to police and had no ties to terrorism.
…that they know of, anyway. It’ll be interesting to see what they discover, should the authorities choose to share.
They also claim the weapon involved was an automatic weapon.
Syrian immigrants don't have access to automatic weapons in Sweden. Indeed, no one does. Was this another instance of gang violence in a country where Kristersson was forced to admit that the government had "lost control" of the situation? That he's in denial is obvious.
"This is Sweden’s inherited problem. They have grown over a very long time," said Kristersson. "That we do not have control over the wave of violence is quite obvious," he added.
Immigrants with automatic rifles are new. School shootings are new. They have not "grown over a very long time." That's utter nonsense.
India Today:
Sweden has the EU's highest rate of brutal gun violence per capita in 2023. In the last month of 2024, 40 people have been shot dead in Sweden -- a chilling number for a European country of only 10-million people, according to a Reuters report.
Gangs are not new to Sweden. It has seen violent gang rivalries between gangs like Los Bandidos and Hells Angels since the 90s. These gangs could be easily identified because of their members' sunglasses, leather jackets and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
But the older gang wars look like an "age of innocence", in comparison to now, reported The UK Express.
The new gangs are made up of immigrants from the Middle East and Balkan nations. The violence has become deadlier and lot more frequent. But in this case the killer is Syrian, so he won’t belong to one of the Balkan gangs. File on Page 1: War on Terror, Moslem Colonists.
Criminologist Ardavan Khoshnood, an associate professor at Lund University, traces the gang violence to the turn of this century.
"At the beginning of the 2000s, we started witnessing more street gangs and more ethnic criminal groups. They mainly started to grow in areas we call ‘vulnerable’ with a lot of unemployment, low education, and socio-economic status. Today, criminals have taken over that society to quite a high degree. When these gangs started to come to power they developed different territories and got very quickly deep into drug trafficking," said Khoshnood.
Ordinarily, I reserve judgment on the perpetrators of these mass killings. But the fact that an automatic weapon was used at a school instructing immigrants, combined with Sweden's recent gang violence, strongly suggests that an escalating gang war is at work.
Update at 11:20 from comments: the killer is identified as Rickard Andersson, 35, né Jonas Simon
Pictured - 'Swedish mass shooter who killed ten': Suspect was 'a loner with "extreme social phobia" who always had a hood up and covered his face'
A man suspected of carrying out the 'worst mass shooting' in Sweden's history has been pictured for the first time.
Swedish outlet Expressen shared an image of Rickard Andersson, 35, who it reported is suspected of shooting ten people dead in a shocking attack at Risbergska School in Örebro's Västhaga district on Tuesday.
The man is said to have turned the gun on himself following the rampage, according to police.
Originally called Jonas Simon, the shooter legally changed his name eight years ago - a move that took family members by surprise.
So not Syrian, yes nuts, probably should go back to Page 3: Non-WoT.
[FoxNews] The Ambler Access Project in Alaska was previously blocked by the Biden administration.
President Trump signed an executive order overlooked by some in the media on his first day of office that experts tell Fox News Digital will play a critical role in developing mineral resources in the United States.
On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order advancing the Ambler Access Project, a 211-mile industrial road through the Brooks Range foothills that enables commercial mining for copper, zinc and other materials in a remote Arctic area in Northwest Alaska.
That executive order, one of dozens signed by Trump in the early hours of his administration, reverses a move by former President Biden to block the project and represents a significant change in energy policy, according to experts who spoke to Fox News Digital.
"President Biden issued 70 executive actions that discouraged tapping into Alaska's natural resources and public lands access," Gabriella Hoffman, Independent Women’s Forum Center for Energy & Conservation Director, told Fox News Digital. "Unlike his predecessor, President Trump recognizes Alaska's potential to meet domestic energy and national security needs for reliable energy and critical minerals—including restoring the Ambler Access Project connecting to the Ambler Mining District."
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[FoxBusiness] The United States Postal Service announced on Tuesday it will temporarily suspend international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts "until further notice."
The suspension, which takes effect immediately, was announced via a statement on the USPS website.
Officials noted the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong would not be impacted.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
